A mother who killed her two
children in December 2017 was acquitted Friday after a court
ruled she was not in her right mind.
The court said 41-year-old Antonella Barbieri was unable to
understand what she was doing when she killed five-year-old
Lorenzo Zeus at Suzzara near Mantua and two-year-old Kim at
Luzzara near Reggio Emilia on December 7 that year.
Barbieri had the children with her husband, Andrea Benatti.
But the court ruled that Barbieri will have to spend the next
10 years in a custodial psychiatric facility, a REMS, formerly
psychiatric hospital prisons.
The woman is currently in a REMS at Castiglione delle
Stiviere near mantua.
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